Digital sovereignty

Strategic autonomy for a more resilient enterprise

Geopolitical shifts, escalating cyber threats, tightening regulation, and deep supply chain dependencies are actively reshaping where organisations can operate, what technologies they can use, and who they can trust.

Digital sovereignty is your response, not as a defencive posture, but as a strategic lever. It is the ability to govern your data, technologies, and operations on your own terms, enabling innovation through trust and resilience.

The organisations that will lead are those that take control now.

Mastering the sovereignty continuum

Digital sovereignty spans the entire digital value chain. Understanding your position across these dimensions helps you balance control, resilience, compliance, and innovation.

  • Connectivity – Who controls your networks?
  • Cloud – Who controls your infrastructure?
  • Data – Who can access your data?
  • AI – Who governs the AI you rely on?
  • Energy – How resilient is your power supply?
  • Hardware – How secure is your supply chain?
  • Software – Are you free from vendor lock-in?
  • Cybersecurity – Can you detect, respond, and recover with confidence?

Together, the eight dimensions and four perspectives provide a practical framework for identifying dependencies, managing risk, and making informed decisions across the digital ecosystem. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to digital sovereignty. The right path depends on your risk profile, regulatory environment, business ambitions, and operating model.

    Digital sovereignty: From policy ambition to executive imperative

    93% of organisations have discussed digital sovereignty at board level. Discover how leaders are balancing control, resilience, and innovation. 

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    Conversations for Tomorrow #11: Digital sovereignty

    The eleventh edition of the Capgemini Research Institute’s flagship publication, Conversations for Tomorrow, brings together leading voices from

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      Sovereignty built for your reality

      Capgemini builds sovereign-ready capabilities that are tailored to your context. We work alongside you to set the right ambitions, select the right partners, and build platforms that perform reliably when it matters most. All without constraining innovation, competitiveness, or growth.

      How we can help

      Sovereignty strategy and transformation

      Define your sovereignty ambition, risk posture, and target state through a structured assessment. We translate geopolitical, regulatory, and operational risks into an actionable roadmap covering strategy, operating model, architecture, and business case.

      Full-stack sovereignty

      Implement sovereignty consistently across the digital stack, including cloud, data, AI, cybersecurity, identity, connectivity, software, hardware, and operations, ensuring end-to-end control, resilience, and enforceable governance across all deployment models.

      Sovereignty as an ecosystem

      Orchestrate a trusted ecosystem of hyperscalers, European sovereign cloud providers, software vendors, and national partners to deliver sovereign outcomes at scale while preserving flexibility, provider choice, and exit readiness.

      Our capabilities

        Digital Sovereignty Assessment

        Know where you stand. Define where you need to be.

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        Sovereign AI

        AI that stays yours, wherever you operate.

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        Sovereign Cloud

        The foundation for trusted digital sovereignty.

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          Sovereignty Solutions with Partners

          Tailored for your sector

          Digital sovereignty in the public sector: Keeping the nation running

          Build a strategy that ensures trusted control, operational resilience, and continuity of critical public services.

          Balancing control, resilience and innovation in financial services

          A practical framework for maintaining trusted operations, managing digital dependencies, and accelerating innovation with confidence.

          Digital sovereignty for telecommunications: Enabling trusted connectivity

          A practical approach to balancing control, resilience, and innovation across critical networks, platforms, and ecosystem dependencies.

          Aerospace and defense

          Where the deep operational and technological control is essential.

          Life sciences

          Where sovereignty over patient data and research IP is critical to compliance and trust.

          Manufacturing

          Where control of industrial data and systems underpins operational resilience and competitiveness.

          Expert perspectives

          Capgemini Gorilla partnership
          Energy and Utilities

          Capgemini and Gorilla to accelerate energy margin optimisation

          Capgemini
          Sep 7, 2026
          Innovation

          Systems thinking: The route to scalable AI

          Dr. Mark Roberts
          Aug 25, 2026
          invisible AI
          Data and AI

          Why AI should stay invisible

          Capgemini
          Jul 27, 2026

          Meet our experts

          Nicolas Gaudillière

          Nicolas Gaudillière

          Vice President, Strategy and Transformation Consultant
          A CentraleSupélec engineer, Nicolas started his career in the 2000s. He initially worked as a cybersecurity consultant before helping to establish cloud service platforms for telecom operators and major systems integrators. In 2015, he joined Capgemini Invent as Vice President of Technology, Cloud & AI, focusing on the organizational and human transformations required to adopt emerging technologies such as IoT, cloud, AI, blockchain, 5G, and quantum computing. A long-standing advocate of digital sovereignty, he develops go-to-market strategies, solutions, and strategic partnerships for the Group with U.S., European, and national cloud and AI providers, helping businesses and institutions navigate sovereign technology transformation and strengthen business resilience.
          James Dunn

          James Dunn

          Global cloud portfolio lead, Cloud Infrastructure Services
          James is a technically astute and visionary leader with over 15 years of experience driving enterprise cloud transformation. He brings deep expertise in strategic sales, offering co-creation, partner ecosystem management, and technical leadership. James has successfully led global business units across cloud migration, DevOps, platform engineering, and managed services—delivering high-impact outcomes and accelerating cloud adoption at scale.
          Rob Kernahan

          Rob Kernahan

          UK Chief Architect for Cloud and a Global SME on Cloud Technology, Data and IT Operating Models
          Rob is a member of the Capgemini CTO group as UK Chief Architect for Cloud and a Global SME on Cloud Technology, Data and IT Operating Models. Rob has over 20 years’ experience in Architecture and Delivery across a variety of sectors. Over the years he has led large transformational initiatives and has combined technology and people to create powerful outcomes.
          Stefan Zosel

          Stefan Zosel

          Capgemini Government Cloud Transformation Leader
          “Sovereign cloud is a key driver for digitization in the public sector and unlocks new possibilities in data-driven government. It offers a way to combine European values and laws with cloud innovation, enabling governments to provide modern and digital services to citizens. As public agencies gather more and more data, the sovereign cloud is the place to build services on top of that data and integrate with Gaia-X services.”

            Let’s make it real

            Our experts can help you assess your posture, design the right path forward, and build sovereign platforms that deliver lasting value. Talk to us today!

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